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As a young girl my great grandparents were od Omish decent, I was wondering if there was any way of confirming this through records? I am very curious. My great grandfather was from Minnesota and great grandmother was from south Dakota, they came to Canada and settled in Claresholm. I was hoping to find out any information possible.

My family name is Hefelfinger. How do I find out if they might have been Amish or Mennonite?. My brother traveled to Switzerland to the town of Hefelfingen, where the name originated. I do know they were German.I can get back only so far online, and I am trying to research back to Hefelfingen, Basel,Switzerland.

Is it possible to research Anabaptist records of the 1700s in PA &amp; VA?

Believe my 1760s great-great-great-grandfather may have been from an Anabaptist family. I have been doing genealogy since 1998 and found his name, Abraham Coffman, that year but have YET to find his parents or even a sibling. I know more of who “my” Abraham Coffman isn’t than who he is. [See http://hexlyn.com/cp/whichabraham/ ]

I believe that perhaps his father either broke away from the church or was shunned. I have multiple research posts/pages on my site. And I do have a copy of his will which gave the name of his wife & his children.

He was born in VA according to a census record but where in VA I do not know. I have researched Martin Coffman but I have not found any “sourced” data that shows any link to my Coffmans. He & his family migrated from VA to KY in 1803-1804.

How would I go about finding records or obtaining help on searching for Abraham Coffman?